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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-04-29

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(MM "11 lb Mil tl MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1850. NO. 24j VOL. II, MT. VERNON REPUBLICAN. TERMS ! $2,00 Per Annum, if In Advance. ADVEIITISINU' The RruLiOAM has the largest circulation In the county and is, therefore, the best medium through which business men can advertise. A d tertisements will be inaertedatjlie following " RATES. , oo 00 M A M M $ S $ o n a us o 1 square $ e. $ e. $ c. I c. $ cJ$, c $, c o. 4 11 00 1 35 1 75 3 25 3 nOjS.iWA.SO 6 00 3 sqr's.",l 75 2 353 35,4 25 5 25,00,75 8 00 3 sqr's.,3 50 3 504 50 5 00 6 007,00.8,00 10 4 nnr's.,3 50 4 00 5 00 6 00 7 00 8,00 100012 1 square changeable monthly, $10;weekly,$l5 U column changeable quarterly, 15 i column changeable quarterly, 18 Xi column changeable quarterly, 25 I column changeable quarterly 40 (LTTwelve line in this typo, are counted at a square. UTEditorial notices of advertisements, or callingattention to any entcrpride intended to benefit individuals or corporations, will be charged for at the rato of 10 cents per line. ST Special notices, before marriages, ortnking precedence of regular advertisements, double usual rates. , , CTNotices for meetings, charitable societies, fire companies, fcc, half price. "Advertisements displayed inlarge type to be charged one-halt more than regular raies. UTAH transient advertisements to be paid in advance, and none will be inserted unless for li definite tiino mentioned LOOK AT HOME. Should you feel inclined to censure Faults you may in others view, Ask your own heart ere you venture, If that has not failings too. Let not friendly vows be broken, Rather strive a friend to gain ; Many a word in anger spoken Finds its passage home again. Do not, then, in idle pleasure, Trifle with a brother's fame ; Guard it as a valued treasure Sacred as your own good name. Do not form opinions blindly Hastiness to trouble tends; Thosci of whom we've thought unkindly Often become our warmest friends. Honesty and Trust. The following pleasant anecdote is from 'Glances and Glimpses," a new book by Dr. Harriet K. Hunt, who was once a teacher in Boston: A cousin of mine in Charleston, having passed away.it became proper that I should attend her funeral. It was school afternoon; I did not dismiss the scholars, and, as they always disliked a monitor, I bit upon the following plan of leaving them. I placed in the chair the large old-fashioned Slate, (it had been my father's) wrote on it the name of the scholars iu the order in which they sat; arranged the needlework and reading for I always had some interesting work read aloud by some elder pupil every afternoon and then said, "Now, children, when the clock strikes five, leave your seats orderly, go to my chair, and place on tlie' slate, by each of your names 8 iitiit for good behavior, and a cross for bad. When I brum; I shall anxiously look at the slate, and in the morning.when you are assembled, I will read the list aloud that everything . may be confirmed. But I trust in you!" On mv return I visited the school room, and found but one ' cross on the slate; and that where I least expected it, appended to the name of a beautiful, open, bright, brave child, who then promised much for the world the fact of her having rich parents being hei greatest drawback. She was the last child in the school 1 should have thought capable of any misconduct. Well, the next morning camej the list was read, it proved truthful; but when I came to this name, I said, "My dear child, you must explain ; why is this? what did you do?" , Looking up to me with those sotilful eyes, and speaking with a sblefu tone, which ever made her ah object of sacred interest, she replied, "1 laughed aloud; I laughed more than once; I couldn't help It, because a slate was keeping ichocl!" LITTLE TOMMY. Does not this simple story remind the reader of some other little Tommy who has banotiBed a trifle by his magic touch, and left it to be cherished as a precious thing? It js from the Charleston News : Whilst passing rapidly up King street, we saw a little bojr sitting on a curb stone. He was apparently about five or six years old, and his well combed hair, clean hands and face.bright though well-patched apron, and whole appearance Indicated that he was the' child bf a loving, though indigent mother; As we looked at him closely, we were Struck with the heart broken expression bf his countenance, and the mark of recent tears on his cheek. So, yielding tb an impulse which always leads us to sympathies with the joys or sorrows or the little ones, we stopped, and putting a hand Upon his head, asked what was the matter ? He replied by hbldihg tip his open hand, in which we beheld the fragments of a broken toy. a figure of a cow. ' ' ' ' ' .' "Obi is that all t well never (hind it. 6tep Into the nearest toy shot) and buy another," and we dropped a fourpenoe into hit hand 'and that will buy one, will it not." : . - Oh, "yes, replied he, bursting into a paroxism of grief, "but this was little Tommy's, and he's dead I . We save him the last niece of silver we possessed, but had it been gold, we doubt not if he would have noticed it more than he did the silver. The wealth of (be world could hot bare supplied the Vacancy that the breaking oi thai toy bad left In bis lit He unsophisticated. heart. ,j SIGNS AND SIGNALS. As the time of holding tho Cincinnati Convention approaches, we see various signs of unrest. Hear what the Ironton Spirit of the Times, a reputed orthodox "Democratic" paper, saysf "We have a confidential letter from a member of Congress, at Washington, giv ing us the most positive assurance that a majority oi tne delegates eiecien in mis State the 8th of January, to the Cincinnati Convention, are in favor of Douglas. "We have only to say, that it yet re mains to be seen whether the PEOPLE are in favor of him. Mr. Douglass has done the Democratic cause and party more injury than any other individual in the country. Why can men be so blind and infatuated as to talk of supporting either bim or fierce 7 "If open and shameless repudiation of the party are any recommendations to men, then Stephen A. Douglas and Franklin Pierce ouiht to be sustained and exten sively patronized by the Democratic par ty." "The Spirit of the Times apparently objects to Douglas and Pierce because of their abandonment of the time-honored principles of the old Democratic pltrty.and their repudiation of genuine Nationality for Aristocratic Sectionalism. But the Slave Democracy make this subserviency a primary condition of support. Now hear what is going forward on the other side of this question. The Washington corres pondent of the N. Y. Herald gives the fol lowing item: "A secret circular has been sent to the leading Democrats of each of the Southern States, proposing a union of all the Southern delegates to the National Con vention, before leaving for Cincinnati, upon one man as their candidate for the Presi dency. It is urged that such a step is ren dered necessary under the present state of things, tor Southern security against Northern fanaticism, end that the safety of the south consists in the choice of some person for the Presidency on whom they can with certainty rely." In 1852 the South dictated the platforms of both the Whig and Democratic Conventions. The South placed their tool on the platform of the Slaveocratio party, and since his election have made him march to their music. It seems they mean to do so again, at least so far as the selection of the candidate is concerned. The election comes after Hunt, and we hope to see the Free North as active and determined in the cause of Freedom, as the Oligarchs are in spreading Slavery. Ohio State Journal. Chattels. Fugitives continue their exodus into their only land of freedom, Canada. The number escaping is very large, and the loss to Kentucky and Virginia planters must be immense. Among other incidents oi me runaways we have these: The Editor of the Detroit Advertiser recently saw a white fugitive from slavery. He was a boy, only eight years of age.and displayed an unusual degree of intelligence. He comes from Louisville, Ky., under charge of an agent of the U. G. It. R. He is as purely white as any person in our streets, has blue eyes, Saxon hair and regular features. Two arrivals by the u. u. it. it. are re ported at Syracuso last Tuesday night. The Journal say: "One of these fugitives Started from his "master's" premises in Virginia with a pair of handcuffs on, which had been nut upon him with the intention of shipping him next day as a chattel to the slave market at Baltimore, ile pro ceeded with these cumbersome articles on his hnnds to Philadelphia, where he was relieved of them by some good friends, and was declared a free man. ile is a member of the Methodist Church South, where they send Bibles to the heathen across the sea." A bov fugitive was in Columbus, Ohio, a few days since, who was as white as any child in this eity. He was sent into free dom by his own mother the daughter of her master! to save him being torn from her to be carried South for a market! Hor rible, very horrible are all the records of Slavery. A father hold his own daughter as a Slave this daughter has a son by her own half brother, and that son was to be sent to New Orleans for market 1 What vengeance has Heaven tn store for such montrosity? Sandusky Register, April 1865. Salt on Wheat. Having tried the experiment of sowing salt on Wheat, I deem it my duty to give the result to your readers, and I hope that it may be tested by others, ana ineir experience given through your columns. A field of ten acres was divided into equal parts and sown with spring wheat. Alter the wheat was well harrowed in, one bushel and a balf of salt per acre was sown broadcast on half of each parcel of ground. Soon after the wheat was up, its color distinctly indicated where the salt was sown, and the result was that the wheat was ripe for the sickle five days earlier than the other portions of the field. Not a particle of scab or rust could be found, while that by its side was effected with both. The wheit in the several pieces was all stacked together, so that we could not ascertain the increase bf the yield; I judge, however, it was from four to five bushels !ief acre. . The Soil was Sandy loam; and he field was so divided that in toy opinion the test was satisfactory. Thtodorb ferry, Latok.Jll, Febrliary 20185.' - : ' Horace Greeley, when about commencing the Tribune, applied himself so laboriously to business, that his friends advised him to desist, Or he would kill himself, 'Well,' said, he 'I intend to do something or ox young! . ' ' r - t THE JENNINGS ESTATE. A largo number of claimants to the property of this now somewhat notorious estate, have turned up in Virginia. They are now, or have been, in solemn conclave to devise ways and means for rcaohing some portion if not all the money and property now awaiting owners, in England, the value of. which the N. Y. Journal of Commerce estimates at 2,000(000, or about $10,000,000. The history of the fund is as follows: 'Wm. Jennings, by whom the estate was left, died in London in 1798, aged 07 years. He had been Page to George the 1st, and during the long period of his life, remain ed a bachelor, more given to penuriousness than hospitality. Ile was the last annuitant of the Exchequer Tontine, of 100 a share, for which he received 3,000 a year for many years past. He had property in almost every fund, and such was the immense wealth, that the dividends on most of his stocks havo not been received since 1788, nor the interest on his mort gages for a long time. "In his iron chest, the key of which could not be lound till alter a long search hid in a morlffntre deed there were bank - o o - - notes of the year 1738 to the amount of ,19,000, and sevetal thousand new gum eas. About 20,000 were found in money and bank notes at bis town and county bouses, and also a key to the chest con' twining his mother's plate and valuables, which is deposited at Childs' the bankers. and has never been opened since his de cease, ile is reported to nave always kept 50,000 in his banker's hands for any sudden emergency, and had not drawn a draft on the Bank for the last fourteen years." Hector Jennings, of this city, has incon testible proofs of his heirship to that prop erty; and, it is said, it has only been because the British furds can illy spare such a 6um ot money that be has not been able to reach the property. The Attorney of Mr. Jennings has advanced immense sums in endeavors to get possession of the same, and is now in very close pursuit of his quarry, so we are told. The Virginia claimants are, so we learn, part heir to one half of the property, but the other half is undoubtedly Hector Jennings' own. The above estimate by the Journal of Com merce is entirely too small, for there is immense real estate property besides the money: the whole runs up into the twenty millions, if half the reports told "upon good authority" be true. As our Mr. J. is a very modest man, we suppose a half of $10,000,000 would quite content him. Sandusky Uegiater, April 18m 1856. The Finale. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, writing from Columbus, thus refers to the closing scene of the Ohio Legislature: The adjournment of both branches was executed with rare and unusual decorum. Tho ceremony was unattended by any of those scenes strongly tinctured witn inap propriate disorder, so frequent and customary on occasionsof this nature. All was done "decently and in order." The House dispatched a message to the Senate, informing that body of the completion of business and of its readiness to ad journ, whereupon a resolution was offered and adopted that the Senate do now adjourn until the first Monday in January, 1857. Oirave Senators then parted ana turned their steps homeward. Just preceding the adiourdment ot the House, Mr. Speaker Van Vorbees, expres sed his thanks to the members in a felicitous speech, in consideration of their kindness and urbanity, when Mr. Corry arose and responded in his happiest vein, charming all ears with the richness of his diction and the glowing eloquence of his sentiments. In conclusions, he moved that the House of Representatives "do give three cheers for our glorious State of Ohio, and the democratic republican principles upon which her government is organized, and that the House do then adjourn until the first Monday in January, 1857," all ot which I heard, and part of which I saw. So adjourned the General Assembly of 185U. Who are Your Companions. "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." It is said to be a property of the tree-frog that it acquires the color of whatever it adheres to for a short time. Thus when found on growing corn, it is commonly of a very dark green. It tound on the wiuie oak it has the color peculiar to that tree. Just so it is with men. Tell me whom you prefer and choose as your companions, and I certainly can tell who you are. Do you love the society of the vulgar? Then you are already debased in your sentiments. Do vou seek to be with the profane? In your hearts you are like them. Are jesters or buffoons your choice friends? He who laughs at folly is himself a fool, and firooauiy a very siupiu one, vou. iv ju ove and seek the Society of the wise and rood? Is this your habit? Would you rather take the lowest seat among them? Then you have' already learned to be wise and trood. You may not have made much progress, but even a good beginning is not to be despised. Hold on your way, and seek to be a companion of all that fear God. So you shall be wise for yourself, and wise for eternity. . . ' Husband and Wife. The Legislature bf Georgia has passed an act to define the liabilities of the bus band for the debts of the wife, and to de finn tlin liabilities of frtmertv received through the wife for the debts of the husband existing at the time bf the marriage, tt provides that 'hereafter, when persons intermarry, tne nusoana snsu not ov liable fdr the debts of the wife further than the property received hi the husband thro the wife shall in bo case be liable for the debts, defaults, ot. contracts of the husband existing at the time of the marriage." MR. WEBSTER ON SLAVERY. The following extracts from Speeches of thn great Statesman, delivered at different times and under all circumstances, from 1837 down to near the time of his death will now be read with peculiar interest: "Slavery as it exists in the States, is be bind the reach of Congress, it is a con cern of the States themselves; they have never submitted it to Congress, and Con cress has no rightful power over it. shall concur therefore in no act, no meas ure, no menace, no indication of purpose, . !!-!. -I II . . l . , wnicn Bnau mieriere, or threaten to inter fere with the exclusive authority of the scv cral Slates over the subject of slavery as it exists within their respective limits.' All this appears to me to be a matter of plain and imperative duty. But when we come to speak of admitting new States, the subject assumes an entirely different aspect. Our rights and our duties are then both different. The free States and all the States, are then at liberty to accept or reject. When in it is proposed to bring new members into the political partnership, the old members have a right to say, on what terms such new partners shall come in, and what they are to bring along with them." Mr. Webster's work, volume 1, 356. (1837.) In the year 1845 in the Senate, Mr. Webster spoke as follows: "While I hold with as much integrity, I trust, and faithfulness as any citizen of this country, to all the original amendments and compromises under which the constitution was adopted, I never would and never can persuade myself to be in favor of the admission of other Slates into the Union as slave States, with the inequalities which were allowed and awarded by the constitution of the slave holding Stated then in existence. I do not think that the free Statt-s ever expected, or would expect that they would be called on to admit more slave States, having the unequal advantages arising to them from the mode of apportioning representation, under the existing constitution. Sir, I have never made an effort, and never propose to make an effort; I have never countenanced an effort to disturb the arrangements as originally made, by which the various States came into the Union. But I cannot avoid considering it quite a different question, when a proposition is made to admit a new btate, and that it be allowed to come in with the same advantages and unequalities which were agreed to in regard to the old. It may be said, that accordiug to the provisions of the constitution, new Stales may be admitted Upon the same footing as the old States. It to ay be so; but it does not follow at all from that provision, that eve ry Territory or portion bf country may at pleasure establish slavery; and then say we will become a portion of the Union, and bring with us the principles which we have thus adopted, and must be received on the same footing as tho old States. It will always be a question whether the old States have not the right (and I think they have (he clearest right (to require that the States coming into the Union, should come in upon an equality; and if the existence of slavery be an impediment to coming in on an equality, then the States proposing to come in, should be required to remove that inequality by abolishing slavery, or take the alternative of being excluded." Published writings, vol. 5, 57. Extract from a speech in the Senate in 1848: "Gentlemen who advocate the case which my honorable friend from Georgia sustains with so much ability, declare that we in vade their rights, that we deprive them of a participation in the enjoyment of territo ries acquired by the common service and common exertion of all. Is this true? How deprive? Of what do we deprive them? Why, they say we deprive them the privleges of carrying their slaves as slaves, into new territories. Well, sir, what is the amount of that? They say that m this way we deprive them of the opportunity of going into these newly acquired Territories with their property. What do tbey mean by their property? We certainly do not deprive them of the privilege of going into the newly acquired territories with all that, in the general estimate of human society, in the general and common and universal understanding of mankind, is esteemed property. Not at all. The truth is just this. They have iu their own State, peculiar laws which create property in persons. They have a system of local legislation on which slavery rests; which everybody agrees is against natural law, or at least against the common understanding which prevails among men as to what is natural law." In his speech, 7th of March, 1850, vol. 5, 353, may be found this paragraph: "Sir, whenever there is substantial good to be done, whenever there is a foot of land to be prevented from becoming slave territory, I am ready to assert the principle of the exclusion of Slavery. I am pledged to it from the year 1837; I have been pledged to it again and again, and I will perform these pledges; but I will not do a thing unnecessarily that wounds the feelings of others, or that does discredit to my own understanding." In a speech at Buffalo, not long after the compromise in 1851, which Mr. Webster favoied, he said: "I never would consent and never have consented, that there should be one foot of! slave territory beyond what the old thirteen States had at the time of the foundation of the Union." . A train he said: "I think I see a course adoDted which is likely to turn the consti tution of thin land into a deformed monster into a curse rather than a blessing; in fact, a frame of unequal government, not founded : on popular representation, hot founded on equality; but on the grossest inequality; and I think that . this process will go on, or that there is danger that it will go on, until this Union shall fall to pieces. I resist it to-day and always. Whoever falters, or whoever (lies, 1 con' tinue the contest" His Buffalo speech contains theso fuith i er declarations: - "If the South wish any concession from me, they will not get it, nota hair's breadth of it., I concede nothing. But I say I will maintain for you, to the utmost of my power, and In the face of all danger, their rights under tho Constitution, and your rights under the Constitution. And I shall never be found to falter in one or the oth er." vol. 2. 447. In his Marshfield speech, ho said: "There has for a long tune been no North I think the North Star is it last discovered. I think there will bo a North." In regard to Northern Union saviors, par excellence politicians by trade, he ro- mnrked: "For my part, I think 'doughfaces' is an epithet not sulhciently reproachful, bucu persons are 'doughfaces' with dough heads, and dough souls; they are all dough the coarsest potter may mould them to vessels of honor or dishonor most readily to ves sels of dishonor." vol. 2, 439. Cnre for the Files. Mr. N. Pruden, of Jersey.Licking coun ty, in this State, sends us the following re-ccipe for the cure of the Piles, which he desires us to publish for the benefit of tho afflicted: Take half a pound of new-made Butter, free from Bait one pint of the juice of the Poke root (which some call Garget,) and one common table spoon full of Gunpow der; put them together and simmer tho compound over a slow fire until the water is all out. Then, as it is cooling, stir it a little at intervals, to keep the Powder from sinking. Directions: Anoint the parts affected twice a day, for a few days. This has cured ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, of all kinds of Piles. If the disease is not at the surface, a swab must be made to reach it, if possible. This is often nec essary with bleeding Piles. The month of May is the best time to make the balve as the root is then tho most juicy, and can be easily grated and strained. But if made in the winter the root can be boiled, and use the tea according to the strength. Mr. Fruden adds: ibis has been a cure in New-Jersey for more than fifty years, and never known to tail ot cure but twice. It has never been patented, nor peddled until within a few years. I gave a receipe to a man who has since been getting rich by it. My ancestors always gave it away to the afflicted when called for, and never intended any one should speculate on it. I have long intended to publish it, but could never think of it when I was at a printing-office. I now send it to you, with the hope you will give it to the public for the benefit of whom it may concern. All Sorts of Minds. There is a strong disposition in men of opposite minds to despise each other. A grave man cannot conceive what is the use of wit in society; a person, who takes a strong common-sense view of the subject, is for pushing out by the head and shoulders an ingenious theorist, who catches at the slightest and faintest analogies; and another man who scents the ridiculous from afar, will hold no commerce with him who tests exquisitely the fine feeling of the heart and is alive to nothing else; whereas talent is talent, and mind is mind, in all its branches! Wit gives to life one of its best flavors, common-sense leads to immediate action, and gives to society its daily motion; large and comprehensive views cause its annual rotation; ridicule chastises folly and imprudence, and keeps men in its proper sphere; subtlety seizes hold of the tine threads of truth; analogy darts away in the most sublime discoveries; feeling paints all the exquisite passions of man's soul, and rewards him, by a thousand inward visitations, for the sorrows that come from without. God made it all I We must despise no sort of talent; they all have their separate duties and uses all the happiness of mon for their object; they all improve, exalt and gladden life. Sidney Smith, Artless Simplicity. One of the sweetest incidents which we have noticed for many a day and one which shows the effect of early training, assisted by a simple and undefiled imagination, has just fallen under our observa tion. It is thus related: "A lady lately visited New York city and saw ona day on the sidewalk a ragged, cold and hungry little girl, gazing wistful ly at some of the cakes in a shop window. she stopped, and taking the littlo one by the hand, led her into the store. Though she was aware that bread might be better for the cold child than cake, vet desiring to gratify the shivering and forlorn one, she bought and gave her the cake she wanted. Sho then took her, to another place, where she procured her a shawl and other articles of comfort. The grateful little creature looked the benevolent lady up full in the face, and with artful simplicity said, "Are you God's wife?" Did the most eloquent speaker ever employ words to better advantage. Immense Grain Warehouse. The mammoth grain warehouse on the grounds of the Illinois Central Railroad depot at Chicago is now nearly completed. Un Monday the nrst gram was received into it and elevated. The building is 206 feet long, 102 wide, and 105 feet from the ground to the comb of the roof. Its present capacity for grain above the first story, which is fourteen feet high, is 650.000 bushels, and, if desired, the bins can be run still higher, increasing their capacity to 700,000 bushels. The bins are 152 in number and 36 feet deep. There are 1 1 sets of elevators to take grain from cars and distribute it over the building. The engine which drives the elevators is of one hnndred horae power. . The building was erected by Messrs. Sturges, Buckingham Sc Co., at an expense of nearly 8160,000. JT There is ho selfishness where there is a wife and family and. the bouse is lighted up by mutaal charities; everything achieved for them is victory; everything endured for them i triumph. VALUE OF THE CLEVELAND WOOL DEPOT. Having iust finished reading Goodale k wish to call the attention of your subscri bers to a few reasons that govern me in lending my influence, (if I have any,) and my patronage to the support ot the ueve land Wool Depot or like houses. In their last circular,they gave the prices which can be obtained for their grades of wool; they also give the New York quotations, and we see that in their lowest grade, there are three cents per pound in favor of Cleveland prices, whilst in the highest grade there are fifteen cents. Now my present purpose is, to inquire if such hottses as the Cleveland Wool Depot, are not entitled to our support as Wool-growers, if through such sources we can get correct statements of the markets; for, in my experience, it has been with the utmost difficulty to get reliablo reports of the market; more particularly of the wool market. I do not now think, and never have thought, that we have stood an equal advantage with the wool dealers ; they are thoroughly posted in all the ups and downs of the trade, and though their newspaper reports, mould and shape the wool market to their andvantage. For the truth of this assertion, I would refer to a last August's quotations. After the wool clip was mostly secured, tho quotations were six cents higher than they were one month previous, and during the time of buying, and now they are some three cents lower than last fall, after the clip was secured. Instead of being three cents lower, the above named circular shows some six cents advance. Why are these facts concealed from those who are most deeply interested in them? It is truo that Editors of those commercial reports are mnre directly sup ported by dealers in wools than by the f arming community, yet I cannot believe them sufficiently interested to knowingly publish false statements, but they do so through in attention and perhaps ignorance of the ac tual condition of the market. The wool dealers who report for the papers are the ones who are at fault.and who are defraud ing the wool-growers out of thousands of dollars every year, by thus forestalling the wool market. Neither do these profits go into the hands of the manufacturers; but they are used up by a class of men who are of no earthly use to either wool grow ers or manufacturers. Now this old system of forestalling the market and then buying up the wools, I am distinctly opposed to,and do say, that every wool grower should look to his own interest in this matter. Can we adopt any bet ter plan than the Wool Depot system. furthermore, the Depot referred to has largely aided the wool growers of this vicinity, and Ohio generally; and so far as I know, has been conducted to further the best interest of its patrons. Many of my acquaintances are highly pleased with the sales, and with one single exception, speak in high terms, and yet I notice their busi ness tell oft from the previous year, l claim that no house could be better conducted than this has been; all their pre dictions of the market this spring have proved true to a remarkablo degree, and I regret to see their receipts decrease, and hope that every wool grower will take an active interest in this house. Another thing that appears to me abso lutely necessary to carry out fully the de signs of this system of handling wools, is tho establishing of the nool Urower s Association. Every farmer who has fifty sheep will be largely benefitted by this arrangement, and every farmer should subscribe one share at least, which would re quire only $10 to be paid into the Asso-ciatiation.which, to say nothing of the indirect advantages he will receive from sales of wool, will be a source of income, as an investment. Ohio Farmer, A "Romance of the Peerage. By the death of the Duke of Norfolk, Sir Edmund Lyons becomes father of the present premier duchess of England. The "romance of tho peerage" has fewer prettier chapters than this: Tho voung Earl of Arundel and Surrey was traveling in Greece, where he was attacked by fever, and his life was despaired of. He was removed to the house of the British minister, Sir Edmund Lyons, at Athens, when a "ministering angel," in the person of Sir Edmund's fair daughter, became hisfl'urse, and by her devoted attentions, was believed to have saved the life of the young heir of the oldest ducal house in England, at the hazard of her own. The gratitude of the young earl for his fair preserver took the usual shape; but as soon as Sir Edmand Lyons found reason to suspect what was going on, he wrote to the earl's father, informing him of his son's convalescence, and begging that he might be removed, since he knew that his daughter had no pretensions to mate with such illustritious lineage. Sir Edmund's letter displayed so much honorable feeling, and the young man's attachment seemed so insurmounta ble, that the consent of the parents was obtained. They were married, and 'They lived happily ever after," as the story books say. Bmlks and Rifles for Kiiisis. -At. Kansas meeting in New Haven, Conn., a few days ago, Prof. Silliman, of Yale Col lege, subscribed a Sharp's rifle; Rev. Mr. Dutton subscribed a rifle and a bible, for one of the deacons of his church, who is about to go to Kansas; Miss Dutton gave one, Charles Ivess three, and numerous others subscribed from one to half doien. Henry Ward Bcechcr, who had previously made a speech, said if twonty-five rifles were raised, he would pledge Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, for as many more. The rifles were raised amidst much enthu siasm, when Mr; Beecher exclaimed. "I think Kansas will now know that there is a A'orA." ' J" ... . Wt. H.". Oakland -Thi DxrAHtiM Ex-Trkabcrkr Released oB ail Bobdb, 940,000. An application was made, yes terday, before the Frst District Court, by Messrs. Hunt arid Huntonj On behalf of Wm. II. Garland, the defaulting Ex-Tress-' urer, to admit the latter on bail ' Corn Speculators Bitted. Since the incoming of the corn crop this; season speculators ,and dealers have been largely engaged in making purchases along' the Ohio ana Wabash rivers. , , They com menced operations at comparatively high figures, and soon the river banks were, lined with hugh piles of corn in sacks await Ing shipment; but prices almost immediately declined, ana, holders iu a great measure ceased shipping, as the price in foreign markets would not warrant th, post of transportation. A steamer arrived at Louisville from Henderson last week with! one thousand sacks of corn for distillers af Carrolllon. It is the first receipt of a purr chase by them of about 92,000 bushels of, corn. It was brought in Indiana early id the season, and the price paid varied forty to forty-two cents per bushel. Subsequently they proffered the farmers ten ctsj per bushel to take the corn back and rescind their contracts, which they of course refused. Other buyers entered more largely into the trade, and very many of theni bought corn by the hundred thousand bushels, or agreed to take the entire stand ing crops of the farmers, anticipating high prices, the market everywhere, as fast as corn began to arrive, declined, and pri ces went down to 25 centfj at which rates speculators are again buying largely. jjoswn vauner. -,, . -'1,' 1 - i A Whole Family in Heaven! The follnwing eloquent passage is front the pen of Albert Barnes: . "A whole family in Heavent Who can! picture or describe the everlasting joy? Net one is absent. Nor father, nor mother, nor son, nor daughter, are away. , Jtt the World below, tbey were united m faith, and love, and peace, and joy. In the morning of the resurrection they ascended together. Before the throne they bow to gether in united adoration. ..On the banks of the River of Life they walk hand id and, and as a lamily they have commenc ed a career of glory,' which shall be ever lasting. There is hereatter to be no separation in that family. No one is to lie down on a bed of pain. ..No one to wander in temptation. . JNo one to sink into the arms of death. Never in Heaven is that family to move along in the slow procession. clad in the habiliments of woe, to consign one of its members to the tomb. God grant that in his infinite mercy every family may be thus united.'' Husband and Wife. The Legislature of Georgia has passed; an act to define the liabilities of the husband for the debts, of the wife, and to de fine the liabilities of property received through the wife for the debts of the husband existing at the time of the marriage. It provides that "hereafter, when persons' intermarry, the husband shall not be liable for the debts of the wife further than the property . received through, the wife will satisfy and that the property received bv the husband throuch the wife shall iri no case be liable for the debts, defaults, or contracts of the husband existing at the. time of the marriage." Several other States have looked into and secured woman's rights in this important particular. Egyptian Maizb. The San Antonia (Texas) Herald says: "Col. A. Rogers ha4 shown us one of fifty-two head of Egyptian maize, produced from one seed, which had been embalmed with an Egyptian mummy for two thousand years.. TbeJ head we saw was large and well filled. The seed produced seventeen stalks, front which the Colonel took twenty large heads.' from this test there is .no question but that this cereal is well adapted to this oli mate, more productive than Indian corn, and is an excellent substitute. There is now a sufficient ninount of seed in the country to fairly test its qualities." Hca in Spiix o X Ripribvi. We sea in the papers an account of the execution of a convict, by the sheriff of Franklin county, in this State, after the receipt by him of a respite from Governor Winston He is said to have pronounced the document a forgery. If the order of the Gov ernor was formal, the hanging was mur der; if it was not, the sheriff is not responsible. Mont'ry (Ala.) Mail. 3T A verdict for 93,000 was rendered against the Central Railroad Company irt Albany last week for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the cars being thrown off the tract. He was a drover, and had a Contract with the compa nv. and on his pass an etcention to dama ges was printed. The defence relied upon this exception to exonerate them front liability, but the court decided Otherwise Conductor and Engineer IndIotio. The Jonesville (Mich.) Independent learnt that the Grand Jury indicted Parsons, th conductor, and Keegan, the engineer, fof manslaughter in causing the loss of sevetal lives by the collision between that place and Hillsdale on the 7th of February last. It will be remembered that they started the train from Jonesville out of timet Wild Rica in Minnesota. f he wild rice of the swamps in Minnesota has pro duced an abundant crop this year, and upon this myriads of ducks and geese fatted until the water froze up. The Indiana also made great use of wild rice. It has been sown in Connecticut, and producer, well. - .. Tfik Valui or A Goon Win. The old Northumbrian song says: i ' ' A tnan may ipare, - , And yon b bae, : : .. ; . '.o.i , if lis wife be aowght, If bis wife bi nrgt4, Bute tula uayspctid, ..,.,.. j,-, And have money to lead, ;. If his wife b owght, If hit wife be cw&U, Is ant Boor Hit? "Ejeune sue, rnsA. am, but I would like to ask why yon look at me so sarsgelyt"' . "I beg pardon, atr4 I thought it was my husband.l'' -. . , tW The soul k always bs-y.'-ind U ik be not exercised about eerioas affairs, tr spend Ua activity upon trifls

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Do not form opinions blindly Hastiness to trouble tends; Thosci of whom we've thought unkindly Often become our warmest friends. Honesty and Trust. The following pleasant anecdote is from 'Glances and Glimpses," a new book by Dr. Harriet K. Hunt, who was once a teacher in Boston: A cousin of mine in Charleston, having passed away.it became proper that I should attend her funeral. It was school afternoon; I did not dismiss the scholars, and, as they always disliked a monitor, I bit upon the following plan of leaving them. I placed in the chair the large old-fashioned Slate, (it had been my father's) wrote on it the name of the scholars iu the order in which they sat; arranged the needlework and reading for I always had some interesting work read aloud by some elder pupil every afternoon and then said, "Now, children, when the clock strikes five, leave your seats orderly, go to my chair, and place on tlie' slate, by each of your names 8 iitiit for good behavior, and a cross for bad. When I brum; I shall anxiously look at the slate, and in the morning.when you are assembled, I will read the list aloud that everything . may be confirmed. But I trust in you!" On mv return I visited the school room, and found but one ' cross on the slate; and that where I least expected it, appended to the name of a beautiful, open, bright, brave child, who then promised much for the world the fact of her having rich parents being hei greatest drawback. She was the last child in the school 1 should have thought capable of any misconduct. Well, the next morning camej the list was read, it proved truthful; but when I came to this name, I said, "My dear child, you must explain ; why is this? what did you do?" , Looking up to me with those sotilful eyes, and speaking with a sblefu tone, which ever made her ah object of sacred interest, she replied, "1 laughed aloud; I laughed more than once; I couldn't help It, because a slate was keeping ichocl!" LITTLE TOMMY. Does not this simple story remind the reader of some other little Tommy who has banotiBed a trifle by his magic touch, and left it to be cherished as a precious thing? It js from the Charleston News : Whilst passing rapidly up King street, we saw a little bojr sitting on a curb stone. He was apparently about five or six years old, and his well combed hair, clean hands and face.bright though well-patched apron, and whole appearance Indicated that he was the' child bf a loving, though indigent mother; As we looked at him closely, we were Struck with the heart broken expression bf his countenance, and the mark of recent tears on his cheek. So, yielding tb an impulse which always leads us to sympathies with the joys or sorrows or the little ones, we stopped, and putting a hand Upon his head, asked what was the matter ? He replied by hbldihg tip his open hand, in which we beheld the fragments of a broken toy. a figure of a cow. ' ' ' ' ' .' "Obi is that all t well never (hind it. 6tep Into the nearest toy shot) and buy another," and we dropped a fourpenoe into hit hand 'and that will buy one, will it not." : . - Oh, "yes, replied he, bursting into a paroxism of grief, "but this was little Tommy's, and he's dead I . We save him the last niece of silver we possessed, but had it been gold, we doubt not if he would have noticed it more than he did the silver. The wealth of (be world could hot bare supplied the Vacancy that the breaking oi thai toy bad left In bis lit He unsophisticated. heart. ,j SIGNS AND SIGNALS. As the time of holding tho Cincinnati Convention approaches, we see various signs of unrest. Hear what the Ironton Spirit of the Times, a reputed orthodox "Democratic" paper, saysf "We have a confidential letter from a member of Congress, at Washington, giv ing us the most positive assurance that a majority oi tne delegates eiecien in mis State the 8th of January, to the Cincinnati Convention, are in favor of Douglas. "We have only to say, that it yet re mains to be seen whether the PEOPLE are in favor of him. Mr. Douglass has done the Democratic cause and party more injury than any other individual in the country. Why can men be so blind and infatuated as to talk of supporting either bim or fierce 7 "If open and shameless repudiation of the party are any recommendations to men, then Stephen A. Douglas and Franklin Pierce ouiht to be sustained and exten sively patronized by the Democratic par ty." "The Spirit of the Times apparently objects to Douglas and Pierce because of their abandonment of the time-honored principles of the old Democratic pltrty.and their repudiation of genuine Nationality for Aristocratic Sectionalism. But the Slave Democracy make this subserviency a primary condition of support. Now hear what is going forward on the other side of this question. The Washington corres pondent of the N. Y. Herald gives the fol lowing item: "A secret circular has been sent to the leading Democrats of each of the Southern States, proposing a union of all the Southern delegates to the National Con vention, before leaving for Cincinnati, upon one man as their candidate for the Presi dency. It is urged that such a step is ren dered necessary under the present state of things, tor Southern security against Northern fanaticism, end that the safety of the south consists in the choice of some person for the Presidency on whom they can with certainty rely." In 1852 the South dictated the platforms of both the Whig and Democratic Conventions. The South placed their tool on the platform of the Slaveocratio party, and since his election have made him march to their music. It seems they mean to do so again, at least so far as the selection of the candidate is concerned. The election comes after Hunt, and we hope to see the Free North as active and determined in the cause of Freedom, as the Oligarchs are in spreading Slavery. Ohio State Journal. Chattels. Fugitives continue their exodus into their only land of freedom, Canada. The number escaping is very large, and the loss to Kentucky and Virginia planters must be immense. Among other incidents oi me runaways we have these: The Editor of the Detroit Advertiser recently saw a white fugitive from slavery. He was a boy, only eight years of age.and displayed an unusual degree of intelligence. He comes from Louisville, Ky., under charge of an agent of the U. G. It. R. He is as purely white as any person in our streets, has blue eyes, Saxon hair and regular features. Two arrivals by the u. u. it. it. are re ported at Syracuso last Tuesday night. The Journal say: "One of these fugitives Started from his "master's" premises in Virginia with a pair of handcuffs on, which had been nut upon him with the intention of shipping him next day as a chattel to the slave market at Baltimore, ile pro ceeded with these cumbersome articles on his hnnds to Philadelphia, where he was relieved of them by some good friends, and was declared a free man. ile is a member of the Methodist Church South, where they send Bibles to the heathen across the sea." A bov fugitive was in Columbus, Ohio, a few days since, who was as white as any child in this eity. He was sent into free dom by his own mother the daughter of her master! to save him being torn from her to be carried South for a market! Hor rible, very horrible are all the records of Slavery. A father hold his own daughter as a Slave this daughter has a son by her own half brother, and that son was to be sent to New Orleans for market 1 What vengeance has Heaven tn store for such montrosity? Sandusky Register, April 1865. Salt on Wheat. Having tried the experiment of sowing salt on Wheat, I deem it my duty to give the result to your readers, and I hope that it may be tested by others, ana ineir experience given through your columns. A field of ten acres was divided into equal parts and sown with spring wheat. Alter the wheat was well harrowed in, one bushel and a balf of salt per acre was sown broadcast on half of each parcel of ground. Soon after the wheat was up, its color distinctly indicated where the salt was sown, and the result was that the wheat was ripe for the sickle five days earlier than the other portions of the field. Not a particle of scab or rust could be found, while that by its side was effected with both. The wheit in the several pieces was all stacked together, so that we could not ascertain the increase bf the yield; I judge, however, it was from four to five bushels !ief acre. . The Soil was Sandy loam; and he field was so divided that in toy opinion the test was satisfactory. Thtodorb ferry, Latok.Jll, Febrliary 20185.' - : ' Horace Greeley, when about commencing the Tribune, applied himself so laboriously to business, that his friends advised him to desist, Or he would kill himself, 'Well,' said, he 'I intend to do something or ox young! . ' ' r - t THE JENNINGS ESTATE. A largo number of claimants to the property of this now somewhat notorious estate, have turned up in Virginia. They are now, or have been, in solemn conclave to devise ways and means for rcaohing some portion if not all the money and property now awaiting owners, in England, the value of. which the N. Y. Journal of Commerce estimates at 2,000(000, or about $10,000,000. The history of the fund is as follows: 'Wm. Jennings, by whom the estate was left, died in London in 1798, aged 07 years. He had been Page to George the 1st, and during the long period of his life, remain ed a bachelor, more given to penuriousness than hospitality. Ile was the last annuitant of the Exchequer Tontine, of 100 a share, for which he received 3,000 a year for many years past. He had property in almost every fund, and such was the immense wealth, that the dividends on most of his stocks havo not been received since 1788, nor the interest on his mort gages for a long time. "In his iron chest, the key of which could not be lound till alter a long search hid in a morlffntre deed there were bank - o o - - notes of the year 1738 to the amount of ,19,000, and sevetal thousand new gum eas. About 20,000 were found in money and bank notes at bis town and county bouses, and also a key to the chest con' twining his mother's plate and valuables, which is deposited at Childs' the bankers. and has never been opened since his de cease, ile is reported to nave always kept 50,000 in his banker's hands for any sudden emergency, and had not drawn a draft on the Bank for the last fourteen years." Hector Jennings, of this city, has incon testible proofs of his heirship to that prop erty; and, it is said, it has only been because the British furds can illy spare such a 6um ot money that be has not been able to reach the property. The Attorney of Mr. Jennings has advanced immense sums in endeavors to get possession of the same, and is now in very close pursuit of his quarry, so we are told. The Virginia claimants are, so we learn, part heir to one half of the property, but the other half is undoubtedly Hector Jennings' own. The above estimate by the Journal of Com merce is entirely too small, for there is immense real estate property besides the money: the whole runs up into the twenty millions, if half the reports told "upon good authority" be true. As our Mr. J. is a very modest man, we suppose a half of $10,000,000 would quite content him. Sandusky Uegiater, April 18m 1856. The Finale. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, writing from Columbus, thus refers to the closing scene of the Ohio Legislature: The adjournment of both branches was executed with rare and unusual decorum. Tho ceremony was unattended by any of those scenes strongly tinctured witn inap propriate disorder, so frequent and customary on occasionsof this nature. All was done "decently and in order." The House dispatched a message to the Senate, informing that body of the completion of business and of its readiness to ad journ, whereupon a resolution was offered and adopted that the Senate do now adjourn until the first Monday in January, 1857. Oirave Senators then parted ana turned their steps homeward. Just preceding the adiourdment ot the House, Mr. Speaker Van Vorbees, expres sed his thanks to the members in a felicitous speech, in consideration of their kindness and urbanity, when Mr. Corry arose and responded in his happiest vein, charming all ears with the richness of his diction and the glowing eloquence of his sentiments. In conclusions, he moved that the House of Representatives "do give three cheers for our glorious State of Ohio, and the democratic republican principles upon which her government is organized, and that the House do then adjourn until the first Monday in January, 1857," all ot which I heard, and part of which I saw. So adjourned the General Assembly of 185U. Who are Your Companions. "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." It is said to be a property of the tree-frog that it acquires the color of whatever it adheres to for a short time. Thus when found on growing corn, it is commonly of a very dark green. It tound on the wiuie oak it has the color peculiar to that tree. Just so it is with men. Tell me whom you prefer and choose as your companions, and I certainly can tell who you are. Do you love the society of the vulgar? Then you are already debased in your sentiments. Do vou seek to be with the profane? In your hearts you are like them. Are jesters or buffoons your choice friends? He who laughs at folly is himself a fool, and firooauiy a very siupiu one, vou. iv ju ove and seek the Society of the wise and rood? Is this your habit? Would you rather take the lowest seat among them? Then you have' already learned to be wise and trood. You may not have made much progress, but even a good beginning is not to be despised. Hold on your way, and seek to be a companion of all that fear God. So you shall be wise for yourself, and wise for eternity. . . ' Husband and Wife. The Legislature bf Georgia has passed an act to define the liabilities of the bus band for the debts of the wife, and to de finn tlin liabilities of frtmertv received through the wife for the debts of the husband existing at the time bf the marriage, tt provides that 'hereafter, when persons intermarry, tne nusoana snsu not ov liable fdr the debts of the wife further than the property received hi the husband thro the wife shall in bo case be liable for the debts, defaults, ot. contracts of the husband existing at the time of the marriage." MR. WEBSTER ON SLAVERY. The following extracts from Speeches of thn great Statesman, delivered at different times and under all circumstances, from 1837 down to near the time of his death will now be read with peculiar interest: "Slavery as it exists in the States, is be bind the reach of Congress, it is a con cern of the States themselves; they have never submitted it to Congress, and Con cress has no rightful power over it. shall concur therefore in no act, no meas ure, no menace, no indication of purpose, . !!-!. -I II . . l . , wnicn Bnau mieriere, or threaten to inter fere with the exclusive authority of the scv cral Slates over the subject of slavery as it exists within their respective limits.' All this appears to me to be a matter of plain and imperative duty. But when we come to speak of admitting new States, the subject assumes an entirely different aspect. Our rights and our duties are then both different. The free States and all the States, are then at liberty to accept or reject. When in it is proposed to bring new members into the political partnership, the old members have a right to say, on what terms such new partners shall come in, and what they are to bring along with them." Mr. Webster's work, volume 1, 356. (1837.) In the year 1845 in the Senate, Mr. Webster spoke as follows: "While I hold with as much integrity, I trust, and faithfulness as any citizen of this country, to all the original amendments and compromises under which the constitution was adopted, I never would and never can persuade myself to be in favor of the admission of other Slates into the Union as slave States, with the inequalities which were allowed and awarded by the constitution of the slave holding Stated then in existence. I do not think that the free Statt-s ever expected, or would expect that they would be called on to admit more slave States, having the unequal advantages arising to them from the mode of apportioning representation, under the existing constitution. Sir, I have never made an effort, and never propose to make an effort; I have never countenanced an effort to disturb the arrangements as originally made, by which the various States came into the Union. But I cannot avoid considering it quite a different question, when a proposition is made to admit a new btate, and that it be allowed to come in with the same advantages and unequalities which were agreed to in regard to the old. It may be said, that accordiug to the provisions of the constitution, new Stales may be admitted Upon the same footing as the old States. It to ay be so; but it does not follow at all from that provision, that eve ry Territory or portion bf country may at pleasure establish slavery; and then say we will become a portion of the Union, and bring with us the principles which we have thus adopted, and must be received on the same footing as tho old States. It will always be a question whether the old States have not the right (and I think they have (he clearest right (to require that the States coming into the Union, should come in upon an equality; and if the existence of slavery be an impediment to coming in on an equality, then the States proposing to come in, should be required to remove that inequality by abolishing slavery, or take the alternative of being excluded." Published writings, vol. 5, 57. Extract from a speech in the Senate in 1848: "Gentlemen who advocate the case which my honorable friend from Georgia sustains with so much ability, declare that we in vade their rights, that we deprive them of a participation in the enjoyment of territo ries acquired by the common service and common exertion of all. Is this true? How deprive? Of what do we deprive them? Why, they say we deprive them the privleges of carrying their slaves as slaves, into new territories. Well, sir, what is the amount of that? They say that m this way we deprive them of the opportunity of going into these newly acquired Territories with their property. What do tbey mean by their property? We certainly do not deprive them of the privilege of going into the newly acquired territories with all that, in the general estimate of human society, in the general and common and universal understanding of mankind, is esteemed property. Not at all. The truth is just this. They have iu their own State, peculiar laws which create property in persons. They have a system of local legislation on which slavery rests; which everybody agrees is against natural law, or at least against the common understanding which prevails among men as to what is natural law." In his speech, 7th of March, 1850, vol. 5, 353, may be found this paragraph: "Sir, whenever there is substantial good to be done, whenever there is a foot of land to be prevented from becoming slave territory, I am ready to assert the principle of the exclusion of Slavery. I am pledged to it from the year 1837; I have been pledged to it again and again, and I will perform these pledges; but I will not do a thing unnecessarily that wounds the feelings of others, or that does discredit to my own understanding." In a speech at Buffalo, not long after the compromise in 1851, which Mr. Webster favoied, he said: "I never would consent and never have consented, that there should be one foot of! slave territory beyond what the old thirteen States had at the time of the foundation of the Union." . A train he said: "I think I see a course adoDted which is likely to turn the consti tution of thin land into a deformed monster into a curse rather than a blessing; in fact, a frame of unequal government, not founded : on popular representation, hot founded on equality; but on the grossest inequality; and I think that . this process will go on, or that there is danger that it will go on, until this Union shall fall to pieces. I resist it to-day and always. Whoever falters, or whoever (lies, 1 con' tinue the contest" His Buffalo speech contains theso fuith i er declarations: - "If the South wish any concession from me, they will not get it, nota hair's breadth of it., I concede nothing. But I say I will maintain for you, to the utmost of my power, and In the face of all danger, their rights under tho Constitution, and your rights under the Constitution. And I shall never be found to falter in one or the oth er." vol. 2. 447. In his Marshfield speech, ho said: "There has for a long tune been no North I think the North Star is it last discovered. I think there will bo a North." In regard to Northern Union saviors, par excellence politicians by trade, he ro- mnrked: "For my part, I think 'doughfaces' is an epithet not sulhciently reproachful, bucu persons are 'doughfaces' with dough heads, and dough souls; they are all dough the coarsest potter may mould them to vessels of honor or dishonor most readily to ves sels of dishonor." vol. 2, 439. Cnre for the Files. Mr. N. Pruden, of Jersey.Licking coun ty, in this State, sends us the following re-ccipe for the cure of the Piles, which he desires us to publish for the benefit of tho afflicted: Take half a pound of new-made Butter, free from Bait one pint of the juice of the Poke root (which some call Garget,) and one common table spoon full of Gunpow der; put them together and simmer tho compound over a slow fire until the water is all out. Then, as it is cooling, stir it a little at intervals, to keep the Powder from sinking. Directions: Anoint the parts affected twice a day, for a few days. This has cured ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, of all kinds of Piles. If the disease is not at the surface, a swab must be made to reach it, if possible. This is often nec essary with bleeding Piles. The month of May is the best time to make the balve as the root is then tho most juicy, and can be easily grated and strained. But if made in the winter the root can be boiled, and use the tea according to the strength. Mr. Fruden adds: ibis has been a cure in New-Jersey for more than fifty years, and never known to tail ot cure but twice. It has never been patented, nor peddled until within a few years. I gave a receipe to a man who has since been getting rich by it. My ancestors always gave it away to the afflicted when called for, and never intended any one should speculate on it. I have long intended to publish it, but could never think of it when I was at a printing-office. I now send it to you, with the hope you will give it to the public for the benefit of whom it may concern. All Sorts of Minds. There is a strong disposition in men of opposite minds to despise each other. A grave man cannot conceive what is the use of wit in society; a person, who takes a strong common-sense view of the subject, is for pushing out by the head and shoulders an ingenious theorist, who catches at the slightest and faintest analogies; and another man who scents the ridiculous from afar, will hold no commerce with him who tests exquisitely the fine feeling of the heart and is alive to nothing else; whereas talent is talent, and mind is mind, in all its branches! Wit gives to life one of its best flavors, common-sense leads to immediate action, and gives to society its daily motion; large and comprehensive views cause its annual rotation; ridicule chastises folly and imprudence, and keeps men in its proper sphere; subtlety seizes hold of the tine threads of truth; analogy darts away in the most sublime discoveries; feeling paints all the exquisite passions of man's soul, and rewards him, by a thousand inward visitations, for the sorrows that come from without. God made it all I We must despise no sort of talent; they all have their separate duties and uses all the happiness of mon for their object; they all improve, exalt and gladden life. Sidney Smith, Artless Simplicity. One of the sweetest incidents which we have noticed for many a day and one which shows the effect of early training, assisted by a simple and undefiled imagination, has just fallen under our observa tion. It is thus related: "A lady lately visited New York city and saw ona day on the sidewalk a ragged, cold and hungry little girl, gazing wistful ly at some of the cakes in a shop window. she stopped, and taking the littlo one by the hand, led her into the store. Though she was aware that bread might be better for the cold child than cake, vet desiring to gratify the shivering and forlorn one, she bought and gave her the cake she wanted. Sho then took her, to another place, where she procured her a shawl and other articles of comfort. The grateful little creature looked the benevolent lady up full in the face, and with artful simplicity said, "Are you God's wife?" Did the most eloquent speaker ever employ words to better advantage. Immense Grain Warehouse. The mammoth grain warehouse on the grounds of the Illinois Central Railroad depot at Chicago is now nearly completed. Un Monday the nrst gram was received into it and elevated. The building is 206 feet long, 102 wide, and 105 feet from the ground to the comb of the roof. Its present capacity for grain above the first story, which is fourteen feet high, is 650.000 bushels, and, if desired, the bins can be run still higher, increasing their capacity to 700,000 bushels. The bins are 152 in number and 36 feet deep. There are 1 1 sets of elevators to take grain from cars and distribute it over the building. The engine which drives the elevators is of one hnndred horae power. . The building was erected by Messrs. Sturges, Buckingham Sc Co., at an expense of nearly 8160,000. JT There is ho selfishness where there is a wife and family and. the bouse is lighted up by mutaal charities; everything achieved for them is victory; everything endured for them i triumph. VALUE OF THE CLEVELAND WOOL DEPOT. Having iust finished reading Goodale k wish to call the attention of your subscri bers to a few reasons that govern me in lending my influence, (if I have any,) and my patronage to the support ot the ueve land Wool Depot or like houses. In their last circular,they gave the prices which can be obtained for their grades of wool; they also give the New York quotations, and we see that in their lowest grade, there are three cents per pound in favor of Cleveland prices, whilst in the highest grade there are fifteen cents. Now my present purpose is, to inquire if such hottses as the Cleveland Wool Depot, are not entitled to our support as Wool-growers, if through such sources we can get correct statements of the markets; for, in my experience, it has been with the utmost difficulty to get reliablo reports of the market; more particularly of the wool market. I do not now think, and never have thought, that we have stood an equal advantage with the wool dealers ; they are thoroughly posted in all the ups and downs of the trade, and though their newspaper reports, mould and shape the wool market to their andvantage. For the truth of this assertion, I would refer to a last August's quotations. After the wool clip was mostly secured, tho quotations were six cents higher than they were one month previous, and during the time of buying, and now they are some three cents lower than last fall, after the clip was secured. Instead of being three cents lower, the above named circular shows some six cents advance. Why are these facts concealed from those who are most deeply interested in them? It is truo that Editors of those commercial reports are mnre directly sup ported by dealers in wools than by the f arming community, yet I cannot believe them sufficiently interested to knowingly publish false statements, but they do so through in attention and perhaps ignorance of the ac tual condition of the market. The wool dealers who report for the papers are the ones who are at fault.and who are defraud ing the wool-growers out of thousands of dollars every year, by thus forestalling the wool market. Neither do these profits go into the hands of the manufacturers; but they are used up by a class of men who are of no earthly use to either wool grow ers or manufacturers. Now this old system of forestalling the market and then buying up the wools, I am distinctly opposed to,and do say, that every wool grower should look to his own interest in this matter. Can we adopt any bet ter plan than the Wool Depot system. furthermore, the Depot referred to has largely aided the wool growers of this vicinity, and Ohio generally; and so far as I know, has been conducted to further the best interest of its patrons. Many of my acquaintances are highly pleased with the sales, and with one single exception, speak in high terms, and yet I notice their busi ness tell oft from the previous year, l claim that no house could be better conducted than this has been; all their pre dictions of the market this spring have proved true to a remarkablo degree, and I regret to see their receipts decrease, and hope that every wool grower will take an active interest in this house. Another thing that appears to me abso lutely necessary to carry out fully the de signs of this system of handling wools, is tho establishing of the nool Urower s Association. Every farmer who has fifty sheep will be largely benefitted by this arrangement, and every farmer should subscribe one share at least, which would re quire only $10 to be paid into the Asso-ciatiation.which, to say nothing of the indirect advantages he will receive from sales of wool, will be a source of income, as an investment. Ohio Farmer, A "Romance of the Peerage. By the death of the Duke of Norfolk, Sir Edmund Lyons becomes father of the present premier duchess of England. The "romance of tho peerage" has fewer prettier chapters than this: Tho voung Earl of Arundel and Surrey was traveling in Greece, where he was attacked by fever, and his life was despaired of. He was removed to the house of the British minister, Sir Edmund Lyons, at Athens, when a "ministering angel," in the person of Sir Edmund's fair daughter, became hisfl'urse, and by her devoted attentions, was believed to have saved the life of the young heir of the oldest ducal house in England, at the hazard of her own. The gratitude of the young earl for his fair preserver took the usual shape; but as soon as Sir Edmand Lyons found reason to suspect what was going on, he wrote to the earl's father, informing him of his son's convalescence, and begging that he might be removed, since he knew that his daughter had no pretensions to mate with such illustritious lineage. Sir Edmund's letter displayed so much honorable feeling, and the young man's attachment seemed so insurmounta ble, that the consent of the parents was obtained. They were married, and 'They lived happily ever after," as the story books say. Bmlks and Rifles for Kiiisis. -At. Kansas meeting in New Haven, Conn., a few days ago, Prof. Silliman, of Yale Col lege, subscribed a Sharp's rifle; Rev. Mr. Dutton subscribed a rifle and a bible, for one of the deacons of his church, who is about to go to Kansas; Miss Dutton gave one, Charles Ivess three, and numerous others subscribed from one to half doien. Henry Ward Bcechcr, who had previously made a speech, said if twonty-five rifles were raised, he would pledge Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, for as many more. The rifles were raised amidst much enthu siasm, when Mr; Beecher exclaimed. "I think Kansas will now know that there is a A'orA." ' J" ... . Wt. H.". Oakland -Thi DxrAHtiM Ex-Trkabcrkr Released oB ail Bobdb, 940,000. An application was made, yes terday, before the Frst District Court, by Messrs. Hunt arid Huntonj On behalf of Wm. II. Garland, the defaulting Ex-Tress-' urer, to admit the latter on bail ' Corn Speculators Bitted. Since the incoming of the corn crop this; season speculators ,and dealers have been largely engaged in making purchases along' the Ohio ana Wabash rivers. , , They com menced operations at comparatively high figures, and soon the river banks were, lined with hugh piles of corn in sacks await Ing shipment; but prices almost immediately declined, ana, holders iu a great measure ceased shipping, as the price in foreign markets would not warrant th, post of transportation. A steamer arrived at Louisville from Henderson last week with! one thousand sacks of corn for distillers af Carrolllon. It is the first receipt of a purr chase by them of about 92,000 bushels of, corn. It was brought in Indiana early id the season, and the price paid varied forty to forty-two cents per bushel. Subsequently they proffered the farmers ten ctsj per bushel to take the corn back and rescind their contracts, which they of course refused. Other buyers entered more largely into the trade, and very many of theni bought corn by the hundred thousand bushels, or agreed to take the entire stand ing crops of the farmers, anticipating high prices, the market everywhere, as fast as corn began to arrive, declined, and pri ces went down to 25 centfj at which rates speculators are again buying largely. jjoswn vauner. -,, . -'1,' 1 - i A Whole Family in Heaven! The follnwing eloquent passage is front the pen of Albert Barnes: . "A whole family in Heavent Who can! picture or describe the everlasting joy? Net one is absent. Nor father, nor mother, nor son, nor daughter, are away. , Jtt the World below, tbey were united m faith, and love, and peace, and joy. In the morning of the resurrection they ascended together. Before the throne they bow to gether in united adoration. ..On the banks of the River of Life they walk hand id and, and as a lamily they have commenc ed a career of glory,' which shall be ever lasting. There is hereatter to be no separation in that family. No one is to lie down on a bed of pain. ..No one to wander in temptation. . JNo one to sink into the arms of death. Never in Heaven is that family to move along in the slow procession. clad in the habiliments of woe, to consign one of its members to the tomb. God grant that in his infinite mercy every family may be thus united.'' Husband and Wife. The Legislature of Georgia has passed; an act to define the liabilities of the husband for the debts, of the wife, and to de fine the liabilities of property received through the wife for the debts of the husband existing at the time of the marriage. It provides that "hereafter, when persons' intermarry, the husband shall not be liable for the debts of the wife further than the property . received through, the wife will satisfy and that the property received bv the husband throuch the wife shall iri no case be liable for the debts, defaults, or contracts of the husband existing at the. time of the marriage." Several other States have looked into and secured woman's rights in this important particular. Egyptian Maizb. The San Antonia (Texas) Herald says: "Col. A. Rogers ha4 shown us one of fifty-two head of Egyptian maize, produced from one seed, which had been embalmed with an Egyptian mummy for two thousand years.. TbeJ head we saw was large and well filled. The seed produced seventeen stalks, front which the Colonel took twenty large heads.' from this test there is .no question but that this cereal is well adapted to this oli mate, more productive than Indian corn, and is an excellent substitute. There is now a sufficient ninount of seed in the country to fairly test its qualities." Hca in Spiix o X Ripribvi. We sea in the papers an account of the execution of a convict, by the sheriff of Franklin county, in this State, after the receipt by him of a respite from Governor Winston He is said to have pronounced the document a forgery. If the order of the Gov ernor was formal, the hanging was mur der; if it was not, the sheriff is not responsible. Mont'ry (Ala.) Mail. 3T A verdict for 93,000 was rendered against the Central Railroad Company irt Albany last week for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the cars being thrown off the tract. He was a drover, and had a Contract with the compa nv. and on his pass an etcention to dama ges was printed. The defence relied upon this exception to exonerate them front liability, but the court decided Otherwise Conductor and Engineer IndIotio. The Jonesville (Mich.) Independent learnt that the Grand Jury indicted Parsons, th conductor, and Keegan, the engineer, fof manslaughter in causing the loss of sevetal lives by the collision between that place and Hillsdale on the 7th of February last. It will be remembered that they started the train from Jonesville out of timet Wild Rica in Minnesota. f he wild rice of the swamps in Minnesota has pro duced an abundant crop this year, and upon this myriads of ducks and geese fatted until the water froze up. The Indiana also made great use of wild rice. It has been sown in Connecticut, and producer, well. - .. Tfik Valui or A Goon Win. The old Northumbrian song says: i ' ' A tnan may ipare, - , And yon b bae, : : .. ; . '.o.i , if lis wife be aowght, If bis wife bi nrgt4, Bute tula uayspctid, ..,.,.. j,-, And have money to lead, ;. If his wife b owght, If hit wife be cw&U, Is ant Boor Hit? "Ejeune sue, rnsA. am, but I would like to ask why yon look at me so sarsgelyt"' . "I beg pardon, atr4 I thought it was my husband.l'' -. . , tW The soul k always bs-y.'-ind U ik be not exercised about eerioas affairs, tr spend Ua activity upon trifls